A Futuristic Thriller About Cloning And Immortality

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2012)

The Island is a science fiction/thriller film that stars Ewan McGregor and Scarlett. Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan and Sean Bean co-stars in key supporting roles.It was directed by Michael Bay.
Lincoln Six Echo lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what Lincoln and his fellow citizens are taught to believe; the truth is that Lincoln, like everyone he knows, is actually a clone who is kept under wraps to provide needed organs when the person who supplied his or her DNA falls ill. When he becomes aware that his existence is a fraud, Lincoln escapes to the outside world with a fellow clone, Jordan Two Delta, though the powers that be are determined to see that no one gets away alive.
The film becomes just another Michael Bay action extravaganza where explosions and chases matter more than characters, dialogue, or plot.With elaborate chase scenes and a high-tech feast of CGI to dazzle the eye, it recycles much of the plot from borrowing elements from other movies such as Logan's Run, Gattaca and Minority Report, and while it's not as smartly conceived as those earlier films, there's no denying that, in many ways, it's Bay's best film to date as it was a stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality.